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Craig Shaver of Lancaster, sent am email to the senator on 30 September
He allegedly threatened to kill her but the contents of the email not revealed
Prosecutors said Thursday that Shaver attempted a criminal threat

A man who allegedly sent an email threatening to kill Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein has been arrested.

Craig Shaver, from Lancaster, California, sent the email to the senator on 30 September, police said. The contents of the email have not been revealed.

Prosecutors said Thursday that the 47-year-old, who has a 1991 grand theft conviction, attempted a criminal threat.

They accused him of being a felon in illegal possession of a revolver. He could face more than three years in prison if convicted.

Feinstein is the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. She has received threats and abuse because some Republicans accuse her of trying to thwart the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

A sea of President Donald Trump’s supporters angry at Feinstein chanted ‘Lock her up!’ Tuesday night during a speech in western Iowa.

The crowd of about 7,500 was furious with Feinstein after she two weeks ago facilitated the public hearing testimony of Christine Blasey Ford against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Trump rhetorically elbowed Feinstein at the tail end of a litany of anti-Democrat complaints, mocking her denial that her staff leaked a confidential letter in which Ford first accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when the two were teens.

Mispronouncing her name ‘Fein-steen’ as he often does, the president pantomimed a moment during the September 27 hearing in which the senator asked staff director Jennifer Duck for reassurance that her own aides had honored Ford’s request for privacy.